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Marco Antonio Rodriguez (HOLA award winner for outstanding achievement in playwriting) with Teresa Yenque (HOLA special recognition for 40 years of excellence in theater,
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Marco - The Writer
“Give people a fact or an idea and you enlighten their minds; tell them a story and you touch their souls."
~Hasidic Proverb
Named Top 50 Figure-LatinX and Latin American Theatre by Routledge. Double M.F.A. in acting and television and screenwriting. Acclaimed plays Ashes of Light and Barceló on the Rocks performed all over the world and published by NoPassport Press (available-Amazon.com & lulu.com). Spanish stage adaptation-Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao-five years Off-Broadway. Oscar Wao-The Goodman New Plays Festival and Old Globe Theatre-Powers New Voices Festival. Half-hour pilot-Our Friendly Neighbors-short-film format-DominiRican Productions. The Movement Theatre Company x Black List Playwriting Commission winner. Bloom-Published in TRW x Black List Inaugural Collaboration (available at theatricalrights.com). Screenplay, Suffer the Children-Finalist-Fresh Voices Screenplay & Creative World Awards. The Black List named it one of the top three screenplays of the month! New play, Domino Effect-Off-Broadway world premiere April, 2025-The People's Theatre. National Hispanic Media Coalition Scriptwriters Program Fellow. Voices “Uncle Nestor” in Emmy nominated PBS Kids series, Alma’s Way.
Escritor bilingüe dominicano-estadounidense, ganador de múltiples premios. Doble maestría-actuación/escritura para televisión y cine. Nombrado figura Top 50 en Teatro Latinoamericano por Routledge. Sus aclamadas obras La Luz de un Cigarrillo y Barceló Con Hielo se han presentado alrededor del mundo y publicadas por NoPassport Press (disponibles-Amazon.com y lulu.com). Su adaptación teatral de la novela, La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao de Junot Díaz acaba de celebrar cinco años en cartelera Off-Broadway. Su obra, Bloom, recibió una aclamada presentación en el teatro IATI de Nueva York. Su comedia, Our Friendly Neighbors, fue producida recientemente como cortometraje por DominiRican Productions. Marco Antonio fue participante del National Hispanic Media Coalition Scriptwriters Program y ganador de la Comisión de Dramaturgia de The Movement Theatre Company x Black List, donde desarrolló su nueva obra, Walk-In. Recibió un residencial artístico del New York Stage and Film y Space on Ryder Farm. Marco Antonio da vida con su voz al ‘Tío Nestor’ en la serie nominada al Emmy, Alma’s Way de PBS Kids, y a ‘Alo’, el unicornio, en la serie animada de Netflix, Barbie: A Touch of Magic.